Monday, March 2, 2009

Some Favorite Reads

No, I haven't dropped off the face of the earth, but February really kicked my butt, thus the absence of blogs for an entire month. I had pneumonia, and everyone in the family (only exception was the dog) ended up on antibiotics for something or other. My daughter with Cystic Fibrosis is having a difficult winter, health-wise, so my posts during March may be few and far between as well. Believe me, no one's wishing for spring more than I am this year!

I thought I'd share a list of some of my favorite reads with you today. This list is of mainstream fiction I've enjoyed. I've got lists for other genres, as well, and maybe I'll share some of those at a later date.

Alice Hoffman Turtle Moon Practical Magic Probable Future The Drowning Season Here on Earth The River King Blackbird House Seventh Heaven

Jane Hamilton When Madeline Was Young The Short History of a Prince Disobedience A Map of the World The Book of Ruth

Toni Morrison Beloved Song of Solomon Tar Baby The Bluest Eye

Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life of Bees The Mermaid Chair

Alexander McCall Smith The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Tears of the Giraffe Morality for Beautiful Girls The Kalahari Typing School for Men The Full Cupboard of Life In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

Donna Andrews Murder with Peacocks Murder with Puffins

Eric Jerome Dickey Pleasure Sleeping with Strangers

Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Mary Lawson, Crow Lake

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree

Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

Christopher A. Bohjalian, Midwives: a Novel

John Burdett, Bangkok 8

Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

Michael Dorris, A Yellow Raft on Blue Water

John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

I'd love to hear what some of your favorite books of all time are. You know, the ones that stay with you for some reason even after you put the book down. The book you'd like to have on a desert island with you. What do you like, and what about the story touched you?

About Me

I'm a full time writer, and I live in the Midwest. I decided I wanted to be an author in high school, majored in English and minored in writing in college, and then followed various career paths before coming full circle and getting back to "what I wanted to be when I grew up." I'm pagan, and I love yoga, reading, and gardening. I was pretty much destined to end up writing erotic romance from the moment my high school class voted me class saint (if they only knew!). I live with my husband, daughters, and a crazy little dog who thinks he's a wolf.